Whether a new board looking to establish good governance or a seasoned board wishing to update your practices and enhance your performance, WATSON offers customized not-for-profit and corporate governance courses and training. Our one and two day courses are tailored to you and the challenges facing your board. It’s learning for you, about you, on your schedule, on your issues – helping you bring top performance to your boardroom.

How we do it

When you choose a custom course, WATSON’s Academy team works with you to ensure that the timing, the team, the process and the course are tailored to your specific needs. Working with your schedule we deliver a course that fits with the board’s calendar.

Prior to every customized course, WATSON embarks on a three-step process to ensure we fully understand the nuances of your organization, your board and your governance practices.

Stakeholder feedback – surveying all directors and select members of the management team to understand the issues you feel your board needs to address. We interview two to three directors and the CEO to get a sense of the cultural nuances around your board table.

Tailor the program – adjusting the agenda, the pace and the depth of specific topics to meet your board’s needs. We handpick our facilitation team based on their experience with similar organizations.

“I thought I knew a lot about governance coming in. But there was valuable learning here for me. Areas that I felt I was strong in were reinforced, and areas that I’ve experienced as being more ‘grey’ became clearer throughout the course.”

“Raewyn and Bradley were great facilitators of this course and left me with a lot of answers to questions I had before attending and gave me the tools I require to keep learning in my directorship.”

“The value of this course was the immediacy of putting theory and recommendations into action.”

“Loved the ‘golden hour’ and the opportunity to ask questions that were answered with real life experiences, anecdotes and stories.”

“I am leaving with a clearer vision and an assurance that we are moving forward in the right direction.”